Table 4_4_1-1

2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 4_4_1.1
Deaths per 1,000 hospital admissions with abdominal aortic aneurysm repair,^a age 18 and over, United States, 2000, 2004-2007
		2007		2006		2005		2004		2000
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		56.8	1.2	64.4	1.2	68.3	1.2	66.3	1.1	83.7	1.0
Age	18-44	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	45-64	23.7	2.0	25.8	1.8	25.9	1.8	26.6	1.7	33.9	1.7
	65 and over	66.4	1.5	76.1	1.4	81.2	1.4	78.5	1.4	93.8	1.2
	65-69	43.9	2.4	47.8	2.4	50.0	2.3	41.4	2.4	53.6	2.1
	70-74	50.3	2.5	53.3	2.6	55.7	2.5	62.9	2.3	80.2	2.1
	75-79	79.7	3.1	85.6	2.9	94.5	2.9	87.6	3.1	106.2	2.6
	80-84	72.6	3.7	92.0	3.4	96.7	3.3	88.5	3.3	117.7	3.3
	85 and over	107.8	6.2	137.4	6.4	152.2	6.3	169.7	6.7	187.9	5.5
Gender	Male	51.9	1.3	59.4	1.3	63.2	1.3	62.1	1.3	74.2	1.1
Gender	Female	90.4	3.2	96.4	2.9	101.9	2.9	97.9	2.9	114.5	2.6
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	59.1	2.4	70.2	2.6	64.5	2.4	72.3	2.3	89.9	2.2
	Second quartile	54.8	2.3	63.0	2.3	72.5	2.4	64.9	2.2	82.4	1.9
	Third quartile	58.2	2.4	63.8	2.2	69.1	2.2	61.5	2.4	84.1	2.2
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	54.9	2.6	61.6	2.4	66.9	2.4	66.4	2.3	79.2	2.1
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	48.9	2.6	66.9	2.4	71.5	2.3	59.4	2.4	85.3	2.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	57.9	2.5	62.3	2.4	62.6	2.3	70.0	2.3	82.3	2.0
	Medium metropolitan	57.7	2.5	65.1	2.5	81.3	2.6	68.6	2.6	85.4	2.3
	Small metropolitan	64.6	3.7	55.6	3.6	56.6	3.8	56.1	3.7	79.1	3.3
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	56.7	3.5	71.0	3.3	66.3	3.6	81.2	3.0	89.3	3.3
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	62.4	4.3	63.1	4.3	59.8	4.2	56.8	3.9	77.2	3.8
Expected payment source	Private	45.1	3.2	55.2	3.2	43.7	3.1	62.9	2.9	73.6	2.7
	Medicare	57.7	1.4	66.8	1.3	72.5	1.3	67.4	1.3	85.6	1.2
	Medicaid	85.3	9.6	49.1	9.5	96.9	9.5	64.8	9.4	56.4	10.3
	Other	76.1	9.9	58.3	10.1	58.4	11.0	DSU	DSU	71.8	11.9
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	73.4	9.3	53.2	9.3	57.8	9.8	89.2	10.5	107.2	7.8
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	61.9	2.7	80.1	2.4	77.3	2.4	67.6	2.4	84.4	2.2
	Midwest	49.8	2.6	59.2	2.4	66.5	2.3	66.6	2.3	78.5	2.1
	South	53.2	2.1	58.6	2.0	67.1	2.0	65.1	2.0	82.1	1.7
	West	65.2	2.6	63.3	2.8	61.5	2.8	66.6	2.7	95.4	2.7
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	56.4	1.4	62.3	1.3	66.6	1.3	66.3	1.3	82.1	1.2
	Private, for profit	56.9	3.7	68.4	3.4	63.0	3.5	66.0	3.8	96.1	3.3
	Public	58.9	3.6	77.0	3.8	87.4	3.7	66.9	3.3	84.2	3.4
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	52.2	1.9	62.5	1.8	63.4	1.9	61.4	1.8	76.6	1.9
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	60.0	1.6	66.0	1.6	71.5	1.5	69.8	1.5	87.0	1.3
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	49.7	2.1	59.4	2.0	67.0	1.9	59.7	2.0	81.2	1.9
	Large fringe metropolitan	59.5	2.9	68.7	2.7	62.4	2.6	75.3	2.7	84.4	2.2
	Medium metropolitan	57.6	2.3	65.0	2.2	70.8	2.3	65.8	2.2	80.8	2.0
	Small metropolitan	68.0	3.2	61.2	3.4	65.6	3.5	60.7	3.3	80.9	2.8
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	60.1	5.0	99.8	5.8	87.3	4.8	86.3	4.5	119.6	4.6
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	249.3	38.3	131.6	18.0	101.7	18.0
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	55.8	6.7	65.7	5.8	94.6	7.6	94.0	6.6	106.9	5.3
	100-299	66.2	2.1	75.9	2.2	73.3	2.0	75.9	2.1	92.7	1.7
	300-499	54.7	2.0	57.1	1.9	65.5	2.0	64.1	1.9	79.3	1.8
	500 or more	48.5	2.3	62.3	2.2	63.8	2.2	57.5	2.0	73.1	2.1

^aExcludes obstetric admissions and transfers to another hospital.� Rates are adjusted by age, gender, age-gender interactions, and All Patient Refined-Diagnosis Related Group (APR-DRG) risk of mortality score.� When reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender and APR-DRG risk of mortality score; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age and APR-DRG risk of mortality score.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, Nationwide Inpatient Sample and AHRQ Quality Indicators, version 3.1.

Current as of February 2011

Internet Citation: Table 4_4_1-1: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. February 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/4_heartdiseases/T4_4_1-1.html